 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...Is gone; (1. 12-13) ChER; EnRP; FaBoPV; GTBS; GTBS-P; OBEV; TrGrPo We Are Seven 155 A simple child, un (1. 1-4) 156 'But they are dead: those two are dead! Their spirits are in heaven!' 'Twas throwing words... | |
 | Laura Lee, Martyn Lee - Bereavement - 1992 - 148 pages
...towards accepting the reality of the pet's death. Chapter 4 What to tell the children A simple child, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death? William Wordsworth, We are Seven Children and pets Helping children cope with losing a pet Symptoms... | |
 | Gary Lee Harrison - Literary Collections - 1994 - 250 pages
...child That lightly draws its breath, And feels it* lite in every limb. What should it know of death ? 1 met a little cottage girl : She was eight years old, she said ; Her hair was thick with many a cur! Thar clustered round her hcud. Plate 6: "We Are Seven." John MacWhirter and John Pettie, Wordsworth's... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Fiction - 1994 - 628 pages
...admit the notion of death as a state applicable to my own being. I have said elsewhere 'A simple child. That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death!' But it was not so much from [feelings] of animal vivacity that my difficulty came as from a sense of... | |
 | United States. Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect - Abused children - 1995 - 302 pages
...Minnesota John Wilson Washington, DC Preston Bruce, Executive Director Washington, DC Sec "A simple child, That lightly draws its breath. And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death?" William Wordsworth Table of Contents FOREWORD....... xv MISSION AND COMPOSITION OF THE US ADVISORY... | |
 | Judith M. Stillion, Eugene E. McDowell - Medical - 1996 - 366 pages
...depression research. In Science Reports. Rockville, MD: National Institute of Mental Health. A simple child. That lightly draws its breath And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death? Wordsworth New York, June 17, 1992, The New York Times: An 8-year-old boy: "Sometimes when I'm really... | |
 | McGuffey - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 216 pages
...treated ivith abuse. 15. In'ju ry, harm done. 16. En tire'ly, altogether. LESSON LXIII. WE ARE SEVEN. 1. I met a little cottage girl: She was eight years old,...she said; Her hair was thick with many a curl, That clustered round her head. 2. She had a rustic, woodland air, And she was wildly clad : Her eyes were... | |
 | Detlev Gohrbandt - Books and reading - 1998 - 320 pages
...im Epigraph, der ersten Strophe aus seinem »We Are Seven«, selbst zu Wort kommen: A simple child, That lightly draws its breath And feels its life in every limb What should it know of death? In Wordsworths Gedicht, einem Lob der weisen Einfalt, besteht ein kleines Mädchen trotz der Einwände... | |
 | Edward Larrissy - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 266 pages
...conventions of culture, including the significance accorded to death: 'A simple child, dear brother Jim, / That lightly draws its breath, / And feels its life in every limb, / What should it know of death?' (lines 1-4). The adult tries unsuccessfully to educate her in the comprehension of death. The implicit... | |
 | Peter Hulme - Colonies in literature - 2000 - 344 pages
...because what was considered the more everyday, less academic culture, also emphasised narrative(s): I met a little cottage Girl: She was eight years old,...she said; Her hair was thick with many a curl That clustered round her head. (from William Wordsworth, 'We are Seven') ' My first 'The Word' poem might... | |
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A SIMPLE Child, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death ? I met a little cottage Girl : She was eight years old, she said; Her hair was thick with many a curl That clustered round her head. She had... 
